Read the following paragraph and then select the correct

the letter was more like an encyclopedia and about five times as long. its list of rambling requests went on and on until i could barely stay awake to reach the end. my biggest concern was how i could untangle this mess of details to actually take care of the things asked of me in the letter. if only my sister were a better communicator!

why does the writer say that the requests were rambling?

the writer thinks the letter was filled with surprising details.
the writer thinks the letter was filled with interesting details.
the writer thinks the letter did a good job of getting to the point.
the writer thinks the letter took a long time to get to the point.

Anton chekhov is considered the father of the

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

You have 24 hours to sleep, eat, work, and do all your personal tasks. which is the most effective way to do more in your day? a. eat less b. sleep less c. work more d. take more breaks